The old style Airport Expresses are amazing and have been around a long time, they are great for extending your home network and also great for setting up impromptu networks when travelling.

However, as of Mountain Lion the Airport Utility (which is now pretty dumbed down) doesn’t support them which is kind of lame – I guess when the devices once had an expected life of 18 months that isn’t much of a surprise.

Every now and then I find myself needing to quickly analyse a set of access_log files to see who the most common visitors are so that I can decide if there are any abusers I should be blocking or poorly configured services running somewhere that I can try to get fixed. I can never remember the quickest was to do this so I decided to write down the “one liner” that I cobbled together this time so I can hopefully find it next time and not have to reinvent the wheel again.

I like the admin bar that we are adding in the soon to be released WordPress 3.1 so much that I wanted it to always show on my site. This way you get an easy to use search box on every page even when logged out.

I wrote a quick plugin file which I dropped into the wp-content/mu-plugins folder on this site. Here is the code I used in case you want to do the same: